Protect your work in Bearly
Bearly gives you controls for deciding what context enters a chat, protecting sensitive projects, and removing local or account data. This guide explains those visible controls. For the legal terms governing personal information, read the Privacy Policy.
Decide what to share with a chat
Your message, the relevant conversation context, and anything you attach can be sent to the AI model handling your request. A feature may need additional information to do its job—for example, Computer Use may share screenshots of your display after you approve access.
Before sending sensitive work:
- Check the selected model and the files attached to the message.
- Remove information the task does not require.
- Read permission requests before selecting Allow.
- Tell Bearly to pause before consequential actions such as sending, submitting, purchasing, or overwriting a file.
Managed-team policies can limit the models and features available to a member. If a control is missing or locked, ask a team administrator whether a policy applies.
Control personalization and memory
Open App Settings → Chats → Personalization to decide whether Bearly includes your profile in conversations. When Personalization is on, the Name, Occupation, and About you information you provide is shared with AI models in your conversations. Turn it off when you do not want that profile context included.
The Memories control determines whether a chat can draw on earlier Bearly conversations. In a project, you can limit memory to that project or allow searches across all chats. Select Off when the current conversation should not use remembered context.
Learn more in Memory & Search.
Password-protect a project
Project password protection is useful when access to a project should require a separate password.
Open the project, select Settings, then select Protect beside Encryption. The password must contain at least eight characters.
You can select Lock, Change, or Remove beside Encryption from the same settings page. See Project Encryption for the complete procedure.
Review desktop access
Desktop features ask for access when they need to work outside the chat.
- Computer Use asks before it can observe or control the desktop. Access may last for one reply or the current session, and Stop revokes the active session permission.
- macOS may separately require Accessibility, Screen Recording, or microphone permission. Those operating-system permissions remain under your control in System Settings.
- A managed-team policy may disable desktop features even when the operating system permits them.
Close or hide unrelated sensitive windows before allowing full-desktop access. See Use your computer with Bearly for its permission and stopping controls.
Lock local access or sign out
Open your account menu and follow App Settings → Account.
- Lock all data locks password-protected work on the current device. You will need to enter the relevant passwords again.
- Log out clears local Bearly data and signs you out. You will need to sign in again.
Both actions show a confirmation before continuing.
Delete your account or request privacy help
In the Bearly iOS app, App Settings → Account includes Delete account. Account deletion is permanent. If the account has an Apple subscription, review or cancel that subscription as part of the process.
For an account deletion request on another platform, a copy or correction of your personal information, or another privacy question, contact [email protected].
Read the governing terms
- Privacy Policy explains what information Bearly collects, why it is used, when it may be shared, retention, and privacy rights.
- Terms of Service explains the conditions for using Bearly.
If this guide and a legal policy appear to differ, the legal policy governs.